20 May 2009
a person under the name of his proprietory business doing the business of printing, laminating and directly despatching to patients of renounced hospital of their medical records on behalf of that hospital.he is in dilema as to whether to charge vat or service tax in his invoice. most likely he is interested in charging vat as it is of lower %, is there is any provision in service tax act to avoid charging service tax for this type of business??????